Duke Soft Matter Day

Monday July 29, 2024, Gross Hall 107

An interactive symposium on frontiers of soft matter, a collaboration between Duke University and the International Program Committee of ISMC 2024.

A detailed DSMD program with various information is here. An overview of the schedule can also be found at the bottom of this page.

Speakers

Jian Ping Gong

Hokkaido University
Japan

Eugenia Kumacheva

Eugenia Kumacheva

University of Toronto
Canada

Andrea Liu

University of Pennsylvania
USA

Philip Pincus

UC Santa Barbara
USA

David Weitz

Harvard University
USA

Duke Organizing Committee

International Program Committee of ISMC 2024

Michela Geri
Bavand Keshavarz
Michael Rubinstein
(Amir) Hossein Salahshoor
Christoph Schmidt
Stefan Zauscher

Patricia Bassereau
Seth Fraden
Jian Ping Gong
Jean-François Joanny
Eugenia Kumacheva

Andrea Liu
Srikanth Sastry
Hajime Tanaka
David Weitz
Emanuela Zaccarelli

Registration (required)^*: Please complete the following form

Preliminary Program

Time	Activity
9:00 – 9:30 am	Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 am	Welcome Address (Dean or Provost)
9:45 – 10:25 am	Plenary Talk I (30 min +10 min discussion) Fyl Pincus – *“A Personal View of the Evolution of Soft Condensed Matter Physics”*
10:25 – 11:05 am	Plenary Talk II (30 min + 10 min discussion) Jian Ping Gong – *“Mechanochemistry in Double Network Materials”*
11:05 – 11:35 am	Poster Session & Coffee Break
11:35 – 12:15 pm	Plenary Talk III (30 min + 10 min discussion) Andrea J. Liu – “Many More is Different”
12:15 – 12:25 pm	Break & Transition
12:25 – 1:10 pm (45 minute session)	Lunch & Roundtable Discussion with Duke Faculty (frontiers of soft matter research-theme 1)	Lunch & Poster Session (from Duke Soft Matter Groups)	Lab Tours (Duke Soft Matter Groups)
1:10 – 1:20 pm	Break & Transition
1:20 – 2:05 pm (45 minute session)	Roundtable Discussion with Duke Faculty (frontiers of soft matter research-theme 2)	Poster Session (from Duke Soft Matter Groups)	Lab Tours (Duke Soft Matter Groups)
2:05 – 2:15 pm	Break & Transition
2:15 – 2:55 pm	Plenary Talk IV (30 min + 10 min discussion) David Weitz – *“Soft Matter Physics for the Rheology of a Cell”*
2:55 – 3:25 pm	Poster Session & Coffee Break
3:25 – 4:05 pm	Plenary Talk V (30 min + 10 min discussion) Eugenia Kumacheva – *“Nanoparticle-derived cholesteric liquid crystals: assembly under confinement”*
4:05 – 4:20 pm	Concluding Remarks